Credentials

Harriet Miers is definitely a good nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. First of all, she has wonderful credentials. She was the first woman president of a firm of about 200 lawyers, and was president of the Dallas Bar and the Texas Bar. She was on the Dallas City Council, and has served as counsel to the president since February. She obviously has experience in law and in politics. She would fill the vacancy of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, which would balance out the judiciary by adding another woman.

By Donna Blanton and J. Craig Crawford of the Sentinel Staff, July 30, 1989

MELVIN SEMBLER, the Tampa Bay area businessman whom President Bush has nominated to serve as U.S. ambassador to Australia, has drawn heavy fire. His only diplomatic credential, critics charge, is an ability to raise huge sums of money for the Republican Party. Sembler squeaked through the Foreign Relations Committee's confirmation hearings, and his nomination may face a tough fight on the Senate floor. Fortunately Sembler may have some allies, in part because he had the foresight to contribute occasionally to the campaigns of Democratic candidates.

In front of crowds of a few dozen people, Republican U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV is using his U.S. Senate campaign bus tour to establish his image as a conservative and paint Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson as a liberal. At a Dairy Queen on Curry Ford Road Monday night, Mack charged that Nelson first opposed the Affordable Care Act in Florida, then voted for it; voted for last year's debt-ceiling bill, then denounced its possible defense cuts in Florida; and put six cows on his family's Brevard County land to qualify for lower property taxes, then complained about tax breaks.

THIS IS a reply to a Dec. 8 letter by Bill Lavender in which he wrote that the residents of Eustis should shoulder the blame for the current controversy surrounding Foxwood Apartments, a low- and middle-income rental project being built in Eustis.As Lavender said in his letter, ''The lesson to be learned here is that the candidate's credentials must carefully be taken into consideration before the ballot is cast.''The good citizens of Eustis did that very thing and he was soundly defeated for a commission seat during the last election.

A Pentagon scientist whose security clearance was taken away on charges that he lied about his academic credentials blamed the discrepancy on what he called old clerical errors. Aldric Saucier says the Army actually is trying to keep him from disclosing shortcomings in SDI, the anti-missile defense system known as Star Wars. The personnel records, dating back to 1968, stated that Saucier held a bachelor's degree in applied physics from the University of California at Los Angeles. Saucier attended UCLA but did not graduate.

Former sheriff's Commander Charlie Croft is the obvious choice in the Democratic primary for sheriff.Mr. Croft, who in 18 years at the Osceola Sheriff's Office rose from deputy to second-in-command, has all the makings of a top-notch administrator. He's educated, he's a Vietnam veteran, he's been a street cop and he's managed large numbers of employees.He also has some interesting ideas, such as the formation of a special tourist crimes unit and a scooter patrol in places like Buenaventura Lakes to increase one-on-one contact between deputies and residents.

From Arliss Sturgulewski in Alaska to Julie Belaga in Connecticut, female candidates (like those two gubernatorial nominees) are on the move, seeking higher offices in greater numbers than ever before.Most of us were dazzled when returns from last Tuesday's primaries in nine states showed 32 women had been nominated for statewide or federal office. It capped a year in which six women have been nominated for the Senate, nine for governor, 10 for lieutenant governor and 53 for the U.S. House.

In business, there's a big difference between ''What I can do'' and ''What I can do for you.''The strongest business professionals and organizations relate their credentials and skills to how they will help you. They concentrate on getting results for you.''So many salespeople are self-absorbed. They dominate your time with how good they are, what they have accomplished or what they can sell you,'' said Glenn McKenzie, business development manager of Law Engineering in Tampa.''They talk a lot about themselves.

By Brady MacDonald and Los Angeles Times staff writer, September 6, 2012

After a half decade without a new roller coaster and the removal of two aging rides from its coaster fleet, Cedar Point can once again reclaim its self-proclaimed title of "America's Roller Coast" with the addition of Gatekeeper in 2013. > Photos: Gatekeeper winged coaster at Cedar Point Billed as the tallest, fastest and longest winged coaster with the highest inversion of any coaster in the world, the $30-million record-setting ride will fly over Cedar Point's front entrance as the new icon of the Ohio amusement park.

Yahoo said Tuesday that its board of directors has formed a special committee to review CEO Scott Thompson's academic credentials after he appeared to have misstated his college degree on his resume. Hedge fund Third Point, a Yahoo investor, brought the discrepancy to the company's attention last week and asked for Thompson's resignation, causing an uproar in the tech world and further demoralizing staffers already hit by a recent round of layoffs. In a memo to staffers on Monday, Thompson said he has no plans to leave.

WASHINGTON – If Sen. Marco Rubio isn't planning on being Mitt Romney 's choice for a running mate, he's certainly jockeying to position himself for greater prominence on the national stage. Delivering a speech at the Brookings Institution on Wednesday, Rubio stepped into the sphere of foreign policy. The senator from Florida declared at the start of his speech that "the easiest thing for me to do here today is give a speech on my disagreements with this administration on foreign policy," and largely kept his jabs at President Obama limited to references to current policies, and focused his remarks on his own vision.

As a 17-year-old boy awaits trial on charges of impersonating a physician's assistant, Osceola Regional Medical Center has tightened hospital procedures that allowed the teen to treat patients, a state report released today shows. The Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration's report reveals inadequacies in the hospital's personnel management that allowed Matthew Scheidt to obtain medical credentials and care for patients in the emergency room in August. Scheidt is charged with impersonating a medical professional and practicing medicine without a license, both felonies.

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WASHINGTON -- Back on April 26, a few days after he had named Dick Cheney to manage the search for a Republican vice-presidential candidate, I asked Texas Gov. George W. Bush if that assignment took Cheney out of the running for the No. 2 job. My reason for asking -- which I did not share with Bush -- was that the former defense secretary had seemed to me to be exactly the kind of partner Bush would want on the ticket, and even more, at his side if...